Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Victims of torture on both sides, they languish in a legal never-never land, protected by neither the Paris Accords nor even the status of common criminals. Late last month, amid rumors that peace-keeping teams would inspect the notorious "tiger cages" on the South Vietnamese prison island of Con Son, Saigon set free 124 victims of "political re-education." TIME Correspondent David DeVoss interviewed several of them at a Cholon hospital and cabled this report...
Those who refused to renounce the Communists were carted off to the French-built Con Son, 140 miles south of Saigon in the South China Sea, for political reeducation. Of the 8,945 prisoners there, 6,467 are considered Communists. Due to a steady diet of beatings-as well as sand and pebbles in the rice-dysentery, tuberculosis and chronic stomach disorders were common. Water was limited to three swallows a day, forcing prisoners to drink urine. Those who pleaded-for more food were splashed with lye or poked with long bamboo poles...
...Producers. Crazy Zero Mostel comedy about a con man who wants to produce a Broadway flop, and finds one--called "Springtime for Hitler"--that seems to fit the bill...
...Palisades Interstate Park Commission taking title to BRF and as much other land as possible (Con Edison need not own the surface of any land not directly needed for access and operations of the pumping station), including the uphill reservoir--for this will have certain recreational benefits, at least for bird-watching in winter...
...pretty tough," an old con tells Sutherland at the beginning of the film, "but you ain't dangerous." Steelyard Blues tries to be a little tough, but isn't; it never even tries to be dangerous. Myerson has all he can do to be funny once in a while, what with jokes like "We could go to Rome, Paris, Pittsburgh, all those places," and sight gags like Peter Boyle's not being able to boost himself up on a windowsill...